Today’s Wall Street Journal raises some new aspects for the future

Today’s Wall Street Journal raises some new aspects for the future

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704569404576299052080550730.html

The article by David Pearson tiled “Group seeks upgrade for black boxes” raises some future hopes and aspirations of ICAO.

Short to medium term – “making the radio beacons of the flight recorders last 3 times longer than the present 30 days,
making them emit more powerful signals to be detectable up to 9 km away instead of the present 2 km away”

“…Over the longer-term, the ICAO wants aircraft to be able to transmit data on their positions and other parameters permanently so that they’re never completely out of contact with the ground, Mr. Benjamin’s chief of staff, Daniel Azema, said. That will probably involve transmitting data by satellite, as the bandwidth requirement will be so great for such large volumes of data, he said…”
I personally have mooted this aspect when AF447 originally went down from my past 21 years of sharp end disaster tolerant information systems management and would love to be involved in the furtherance of such work. Canada’s Bombardier already have some of this in place.

ICAO also want to ensure that the recorders float if the aircraft crashes into water.
On this one aspect I have a question/s for the more technically knowledgeable on this forum.
Does it at present mean that the FDR and CVR are fitted with a guarantee of ‘break free’ from enclosing airframe structure or will this be a new innovation and what if any will be the criteria applied to provide a ‘break free’ action from structure of both FDR and CVR ?

The scepticism was over whether it was the real Saddam or one of his many doubles

I don’t remember any scepticism over Hussein he was captured, put on trial, and a recorded execution took place, all processes which we witnessed through our media.
To my mind something like this should have occured this time, to have shown transparency and to avoid silly rumours and gossip.

The scepticism was initially over whether it was the real Saddam or one of his many reported doubles that was initially captured.

While agreeing with what you suggest that in ideal circumstances there should have been a trial we aren’t yet privy (may never be) as to what actually went on with OBL’s end.

What ever the circumstances there are so many radicals willing to stand for OBL’s cause (If he ever had one apart from being a maniac), therefore my point is that we who share the ideals of Christian democracies should be extra vigilant in the aftermath of this recent news.

Scepticism or not a precedent set was the demise of Sadadm Hussein

Scepticism or not a precedent set was the demise of Saddam Hussein

I think there was scepticism at first when Saddam Hussein was eliminated, and similarly there is now in the case of OBL.

Grotesque though they are some pics of the corpse are bound to already be on classified files and possibly will find their way into the public glare soon.

Remaining extra vigilant and not provoking OBL sympathisers is what’s important from now forwards.

Good news and now to await the results from the investigation team

Good news and now to await the results from the investigation team

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2011/05/03/356145/af447-recovery-team-retrieves-cockpit-voice-recorder.html

CVR looks intact just hope that data from both are capable of being interpreted (so long in extreme conditions) especially the CSMU that was found detached from the FDR

Exceptionally nice wit

I wasn’t aware they took Bins out on bank holidays :diablo:
I’ll get my coat

Exceptionally nice wit.:cool:

I’m glad the world is rid of a menace but it is necessary to be extra vigilant

I’m glad the world is rid of a menace but it is necessary to be extra vigilant

It is indeed tragic that this took so long as during the gap between 9/11 and now the maniac has managed to amass thousands of ‘Jihadi’ followers all over the globe.

It is necessary to be grateful to the SEALs (if that’s who finally succeeded) but it is also very necessary to be extra vigilant and more so not be annoyed if there continues to be heightened security at airports and other strategic buildings.

There are many lunatics who are out there willing to ‘carry the torch’ even though their mad leader is no more.